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Shakespeare´s Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare´s plays?
John Hudson
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Description for Shakespeare´s Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare´s plays?
Paperback. Amelia Bassano Lanier is proved to be a strong candidate for authorship of Shakespeare's plays: Hudson looks at the fascinating life of this woman, believed by many to be the dark lady of the sonnets, and presents the case that she may have written Shakespeare's plays. Num Pages: 304 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292.
Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII's reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord Chamberlain, Hunsdon was in charge of the English theatre and would become the patron of the company that performed the Shakespearean plays. Amelia lived with him for a decade, during which time she also had an affair with the playwright Christopher Marlowe. When she became pregnant, Amelia was exiled from court and next surfaces as the mysterious ... Read more
Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII's reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord Chamberlain, Hunsdon was in charge of the English theatre and would become the patron of the company that performed the Shakespearean plays. Amelia lived with him for a decade, during which time she also had an affair with the playwright Christopher Marlowe. When she became pregnant, Amelia was exiled from court and next surfaces as the mysterious ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445655246
SKU
V9781445655246
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Ref
99-19
About John Hudson
John Hudson is a Shakespeare director. He received a First from the University of Exeter and a graduate degree with merit in Shakespeare and Theatre from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. He teaches advanced and experimental Shakespeare to actors at H. B. Studios, and directs one of the world's most innovative Shakespeare companies, the Dark Lady Players, ... Read more
Reviews for Shakespeare´s Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare´s plays?
`Well-researched, fascinating and thought-provoking'
Kirkus Reviews
`A controversial and provocative... well-researched book'
Dr Catherine Alexander, editor of The Cambridge Shakespeare Library
`An amazing character... well worth the study'
Mark Rylance
`We have to re-think everything we know about Shakespeare'
Dr Jane Gabin
Kirkus Reviews
`A controversial and provocative... well-researched book'
Dr Catherine Alexander, editor of The Cambridge Shakespeare Library
`An amazing character... well worth the study'
Mark Rylance
`We have to re-think everything we know about Shakespeare'
Dr Jane Gabin